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After yesterdays superb cycling day, I woke up this morning to very low cloud & drizzle plus totally lacking energy. I would have stayed, but the internet was diabolical cutting in and out all the time. I set off into the wet, thankful for my Aldi cycling trousers as the temperature had plummeted to 12 […]
If you are thinking of cycling The Danube then just do this section!! Basically today can be summed up in one word WOW, stunning scenery, great empty roads & morning coffee for 60p. I’m so pleased at choosing to cycle on the Romanian left bank rather than the Serbian right bank which looked awful with […]
An excellent 74 mile bike ride all though a bit frustrating when you see the huge kink in it just to cross the Serbian/Romanian border at Kaluderovo & then to pedal back to The Danube. Very pleased to stay on the left bank, as Romania is excellent, great smooth roads, smiling waving people (makes you […]
Back on the road again after my two week break exploring 5 star luxury in Hungary with Sally who has written a great deal about it here. The Residence Wellness Hotels we stayed in were both very comfortable with good facilities and fast WiFi . My only gripe is that both hotel pool areas had […]
Here is my ride to date as compiled by the Garmin Etrex 20 & The Adze application: I left home 55 days ago and have bike for 40 days. As you can see it wasn’t a very direct route to the start of The Danube Bike Trail which I’m now 65% completed in 18 days […]
The first job on entering a country is to get the internet fixed on the phone, especially when @threeuk want £6 per megabyte! So straight into the Vip shop where to my surprise and utter delight I walked out 5 minutes later with a nano sim already online with 300 megabytes of data for 300RSD […]
Today was a ride of contrasts from the dispiriting visit to a city still in ruins with very little hope of returning to it’s former glory and also visiting where 200 people were massacred and another bus load went totally missing to the prosperous second largest city in Serbia and its beautifully paved streets, handsome […]
No riding on dikes today the initial one was blocked off for resurfacing as in fact the road diversion was too. I guess the Hungarian tarmac manufacturers must be coining it in! I did a little side trip to the battlefield of the so called disaster of Mohacs where Hungary fell to The Turks and […]
A much warmer day in fact a thermometer I saw was reading 26 degrees at noon 🙂 Although when the sun went behind a cloud it soon dropped. The first bit was through quite pretty villages all supporting a clutch of local shops & a Spar or Co-oP. Then it was back up to the […]
The things I can recommend The Hotel Rila for are it’s close proximity to the E6 cycleway through Budapest & the price,. Otherwise the breakfast is mediocre ,it’s a long way from any nightlife unless you are visiting the adjacent hospital. Plus the owner is a bit dour.. The sun was out and a tad warmer […]